What is recorded here

Ballykinava holds a hidden forge because iron slag still crowds the ground beside a horizontal-wheeled water mill. The mill suggests water power, while the slag suggests heat, hammer noise and discarded metal. Perhaps people lived there long enough to make failure look like ordinary work.

Quantities of iron slag exposed at roughly this location in Ballykina townland may indicate a metal-working site (SMR file: OPW Topographical Files 1985). There is a horizontal-wheeled water mill (MA102-030001-) nearby. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 September 2022

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